Vol 7 (2011)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Fannish preferences HTML
TWC Editor

Theory

Culturally mapping universes: Fan production as ethnographic fragments HTML
Jen Gunnels, Carrie J. Cole
Stranger than fiction: Fan identity in cosplay HTML
Nicolle Lamerichs
Taking a bite out of "Buffy": Carnivalesque play and resistance in fan fiction HTML
Amanda L. Hodges, Laurel P. Richmond

Praxis

"The rabid fans that take [Twilight] much too seriously": The construction and rejection of excess in Twilight antifandom HTML
Jacqueline Marie Pinkowitz
Lifting the curse: Pearl Jam’s "Alive" and "Bushleaguer" and the marketplace of meanings HTML
Kristine Weglarz
Delegitimizing strategic power: Normative identity and governance in online R.E.M. fandom HTML
Lucy Bennett

Symposium

The "lover" and early modern fandom HTML
Vera Keller
Editorial policies, "public domain," and acafandom HTML
Francesca Musiani
H/c and me: An autoethnographic account of a troubled love affair HTML
Judith May Fathallah
Subverting the canon in feminist fan fiction HTML
Hui Min Annabeth Leow

Review

"Personal connections in the digital age," by Nancy K. Baym HTML
Elizabeth Ellcessor
"The function of role-playing games," by Sarah Lynne Bowman HTML
Sean Duncan


Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), ISSN 1941-2258, is an online-only Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Contact the Editor with questions.